Description

This is the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History collection of freshwater mussels. It contains mostly Nova Scotia material but there is also representation from New Brunswick, Newfoundland, the Northwest Territories, and other parts of North America. Temporally, specimens were collected from 1895 to 2009. The dataset was developed from the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History (NSMNH) - Museum Information Management System (MIMS) as an electronic catalogue of specimen and collecting information.

The collection was established in 1895-01-01 and ceased acquisitions in 2009-07-29.

Taxonomic range

Kingdoms covered include: Animalia.

Geographic range

Majority of museum samples are from Nova Scotia

The western most extent of the collection is: -79.000000°

The eastern most extent of the collection is: 43.000000°

The northern most extent of the collection is: 51.000000°

The southern most extent of the collection is: 34.000000°

Number of specimens in the collection

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Metadata last updated on 2017-09-30 01:38:42.0

Digitised records available through the Atlas

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